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[–] Ghoelian@piefed.social 3 points 9 hours ago

There's some other issues with how they handled snap as well. If you use apt to install Firefox for example, it won't install the native .deb by default, but silently install the snap version instead. People were rightfully mad a out that.

Also the fact that it's proprietary and (afaik) only supports canonicals own repository, make me not feel bad for them this failed. They explicitly made it so unlikeable.